♪ . >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, and i'm in doha, our top stories, kenya says it freed the hostages from west gate shopping mall but the gunmen are still inside. the u.s. and iran are set for the highest level talks in years. a u.n. report accuses israel of using excessive force killing many palestinians in the west bank. >> translator: i hang out with dead people so i was a drug

addict. >> reporter: an illegal drug called yeba are having a terrible effect on people in thailand. ♪ the west gate shopping mall siege in kenya is in the fourth day. security force commanders say they killed three more fighters on tuesday. that puts the total number of deaths at 68 and fighters are denying claims that hostages are all freed from the shopping center and we will be live in a moment and first andrew simmons reports. >> reporter: they say there are no more hostages inside but the siege is not over. gunfire were heard again as the crisis entered the fourth day, another body was removed from the scene. it had been an eerie, quiet night as the mall continued to

burn. the government said special forces were sweeping the building floor by floor. it's a big complex covering more than 32000 square meters and includes more than 80 stores. it is not clear how many attackers remain inside. kenya's foreign minister says the attackers are foreigners. >> this is not just about al shabaab, this is al-qaeda, the hallmark of al-qaeda, the way it was planned, i just told you this you know and talking to everybody obviously. and if it's al shabaab i don't know how much support and training they would get and resources provided. this is definitely al-qaeda and led by somebody not from somalia and kenya for that matter and somebody from another part of the world. >> reporter: a spokesman for al shabaab which said it carried out the attack it says forces from israel and britain and u.s. have taken part in the rescue

mission. >> they have attempted on numerous occasions to storm the building from the jewish and regarding the operation and killed 13 and 4 white who they believes to be jewish. >> reporter: calls for calm in kenya continue to pour in but once again the people are in shock and some mourning the loss of loved one, others fears whether there could be more suffering, more loss to come. and that fear, that sense of loss runs deep. it's hard to find anyone in nairobi who doesn't know someone caught up in the attack. some recall the al-qaeda bombing of the u.s. embassy in 1998 when many were killed and they are still coping with the grief.

it's fair to say they have not even started to come to terms with it. andrew simmons, al jazeera, nairobi. >> reporter: peter is live at the scene for us. peter, what is the scene there now, are you still hearing sporadic gunfire? >> yes, indeed we are. in the last few minutes we heard quite a few gunshots coming from the building itself and we heard another gunshot over the other side to apparently by the police to square away and move away some of the on lockers who crowded up some of the barriers and getting too close for comfort but certainly the gunfire is still continuing and we know there are gunmen held up in the building and the government said they have been able to kill six of them and that means there are six or omo omo omore more others who are still in the building and holding out. >> reporter: what about the reports that all hostages have been released, al shabaab

spokesmen are saying that is not true. i guess we are not really going to know what happened to them until the shopping mall is brought totally under control. >> yes, that is absolutely right. there is no way of reconciling these two differing views. we simply cannot see what is going on inside and no independent sources as you can imagine so all i can tell you is we have these two contradictory statements, one from the government saying all the hostages are out and one from al shabaab that says they still have some of them. it's an impossible situation for us as journalists to give you anything more than that frankly. >> reporter: peter we also have been hearing the somali u.n. envoy calling for more assistance in helping to fight al shabaab and what is happening in kenya will have a much wider

ramification. >> yeah, and i think the calls will get a sympathetic hearing given there are so many foreign nationals that have been killed and injured in this attack and caught up in all sort of ways. but i think we need also to be careful about understanding what this really means. al shabaab has not been actively engaged in frontal assaults, operations against the somali troops or against the kenya troops inside somalia for a year or so and doesn't mean all is a -- al shabaab and they have been running this inside itself and it shows that al shabaab clearly has intent to move outside the borders of somalia and we are in

a danger of attacks inside somalia attacks won't help degrade al shabaab's capability but if they have now changed their tactics, if they are now less concerned about fighting to overthrow the government in somalia and looking at attacks like in the organization is changing and the army's ability to deal with what ultimately is a public security problem is going to be very, very difficult to address. >> reporter: peter thanks very much indeed for that and peter is updating us from nairobi. the army is guilty of using excessive force in the occupied west bank, 22 palestinian youth are killed by israeli forces this year. from bethlehem peter sharp reports. >> reporter: last february when they took a wrong turn. the 15-year-old school boy found himself caught up in a demonstration of the israeli

army taking a shortcut home and shot in the head and in a coma for to months and the bullet remains embedded in his skull. there was tear gas andrea -- and grenades. >> reporter: and he was shot along the wall of bethlehem that separates the communities and it's a frequent flash point. there is an increase in the number of palestinians killed and wounded in the west bank and the report said it's due to use of excessive force by the israeli military. the all too regular violent confrontations between young palestinians and the well-armed israeli forces accounted for most of the deaths, 22 this year alone and nearly 3,000 injured. the human rights report says acts of violence by israeli settlers in the west bank

continues to be carried out by palestinians and the available olive crop was targeted with 3500 trees destroyed or damaged. 98 palestinians were injured and more than 40 israelis were hurt with one israeli settler killed. and at the roadblocks and checkpoints along the west point in gaza the restrictions on freedom of movement of palestinians says the report continues to pose a major human rights concern. the prognosis is not encouraging. he suffered major brain damage in the shooting and remains unable to walk. his parents are gone and the grandparents know they won't be with him forever. >> translator: god have mercy on him so he can at least walk again, his grandfather and i won't live for ever and he is 16, what kind of feature will await him. >> reporter: grandson and grandparents sharing a tragedy that spans the generations on the west bank and peter sharp al

jazeera bethlehem. they had reaction to the u.n. report and received this statement from the foreign ministry. it says if there is evidence of abuse and formal complaints should be submitted to the legal authorities and in every case where a complaint is submitted an investigation proceeds. the foreign ministry cannot comment on specific cases referred in the report some of which may be under investigations if complaints have been submitted. iran released 18 prisoners ahead of the address of the u.n. general assembly on tuesday. the announcement was made on state television and being seen as a tentative seen that iran hard line policies may be softening and some of those freed were arrested during protests against the former president in 2009. iran is set to take part in talks on the nuclear program on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. u.s. secretary of state john kerry will meet the counterpart on thursday.

iran's foreign minister has already met his italian and british counterparts in new york, the u.s. is not ruling out the possibility of a meeting between president obama and rahani. so there are signs of a possible fall in relations between washington and tyran but what is the view inside? front page news and across the world. what has been said in resent days makes he is making headlines of what a leader has not done for decades and he voted for him in the june election want change. >> and all of the iranian expect him to fulfill his promises and what promises? being peaceful, show the honor

to the people and have a peaceful nuclear program. >> reporter: rohani campaigned on promising fixing an ailing economy at home but acknowledged it would not happen until they repaired the reputation overseas. >> translator: there is no need for a preliminary step, whoever has good will for talks and if we can fulfill our national interests through those talks we have no problem. no matter who the other party is, even if it is the u.s. >> reporter: this willingness to talk, to engage and potentially act is highlighted in reports that he will meet u.s. president barack obama on the sidelines of the general assembly. but the government doesn't stop there, the foreign ministers already met with the european union envoy on the nuclear program. the obstacles on iran are substantial and there is syria,

a strong supporter of the president and iran and the u.s. and its allies are on opposite sides. as iran's backing of the military ring of hezbollah hezbollah and the nuclear program left the country isolated but a diplomate said he can change all that especially now as the highest authority itaolla sees the need for flexibility. >> it means that he has enough authority and free authority to the particular problems. >> reporter: the mandate means for the first time in more than three decades instead of pessimism there is optimism as an iran leader prepares to speak to the world at the u.n.

i'm with al jazeera tehran. >> reporter: joining me from tehran is professor of political science at tehran university and good to have you with us and it's an interesting time for iran right now, isn't it, what are you hoping will be achieved out of the president's to the u.n. and possible meeting with u.s. diplomates? >> you are quite right, it is indeed a very exciting time for many iranians who really have been fed up with hostility and death to america and death to the west, et cetera, et cetera. what they are all watching with anxiety and with lots of glimmer of hope for a breakthrough, not exactly a major breakthrough, but for many iranian as long as president obama and president

rohauni will meet and shake hands and smile, that is enough because we think that it is a huge step because you must not forgot there are many iranians who are very bitter and very critical of the entire rauhani's meeting with barack obama. the hard line iran newspaper yesterday and today are full of coverage against such a meeting and they are saying that, no, we must not trust the united states, the americans have not changed, et cetera, et cetera. so the very fact that rauhani will meet president obama no matter how short the meeting would be is in itself a very significant sign. >> reporter: obviously there is a lot of miss trust on both sides. do you know what president

rauhani is willing to offer to boost confidence and what is he willing to do as far as the nuclear program is concerned? >> well, as far as the nuclear program is concerned really the issue is not in details of weather we should close one side or whether we should do this or whether we should do that. i think the major obstacle between the two is lack of trust. the rest is not trusting iran with it, the nuclear program and irans are not trusting over the nuclear issue. they think the united states in particular and europe are using iranian nuclear program as an excuse to blockade iran and put sanctions against iran, et cetera, et cetera. and many iranians think that. if today there are some agreement over the nuclear issue, tomorrow united states will come back with another demand saying that oh, what are you going to do about supporting

hamas and what are you going to do about supporting hezbollah so iranians think that nuclear issue is just an excuse to put pressure on iran. >> but the big problem inside iran and for ordinary iranians is of course the impact of the sanctions, rauhani is under pressure to get them lifted and improve iran's economy with a lot of people suffering there. >> exactly. many iranians even are not articulated iranians new the economic misery to some extent is because of previous government administration and the economy. but what percent are you prepared to allocate for the miss management of this? the point is many iranian

believe no matter how competent you have people running the economy as long as you have this huge sanctions and iran cannot sell oil and cannot transfer money outside iran and get the money to the country, you can't really improve on the economy. unless there are some steps taken towards putting -- getting rid of the sanctions. >> reporter: we wait to see what happens at the u.n. a little later on, thank you very much indeed for joining us in tehran. >> you are welcome. >> reporter: coming up, on al jazeera. we follow muslims to iran dispute security concerns and western tourists are also welcome. the reelection of merkel we will find out who has money to burn in berlin. and world's football union

voices its concerns over next year's world cup in brazil. ♪ iraq is home to some of the most sacred sites for muslims and pilgrims visit in huge numbers and despite the security risk western countries are also welcome and we report from kabual. >> reporter: this is the financial destination on a spiritual journey taken by muslims and this is the mosque, one of the holiest figures here. he lived and died in the 6th century and his grave and mosque was built after his passing and attract attract attracted pilgrams and western pilgr pilgrims feel iraq is too dangerous to visit.

they want to change all of that. cameras are rarely allowed permission to come in the shrine but let al jazeera come in and are encouraging tourism especially western tourism but that will be difficult because of what has happened in western weeks. >> we have several religious occasions we profit from and pilgrims come and business will flourish. the man is on a mission. he wants a world-class airport and thinks despite the security challenge he can increase the number of sheer pilgrims from western countries. >> translator: i myself have hosted americans and british people in my house. yes, we have security challenges. but god willing they can be overcome and every one is welcome here and should not be afraid. >> reporter: majority of the visitors to the shrine and

pilgrims have revenues between $10-$15 million a year according to one official government figure. and they say money is not the motivating factor in wanting to get western sheer pilgrim age but keeping this open for centuries to come, al jazeera. >> reporter: egypt's muslim brotherhood will appeal a court decision to seize its assets and ban activities. the ruling allows police to arrest anyone taking part in protests organized by the group and it's the latest incident in a long and rocky road for the group and it was founded in egypt in 1928. the focus on charity and activism and since then it is banned on a number of occasions. the president hobark denied political rights and in 2012 after the over throw of mubark but it has begun again and they

said the court decision could destroy the organization. >> the muslim brotherhood is under theft of decapitation and the leadership is in hiding gone or arrested and this new ban really affects its ability to build the organization for the future, to use charities as a means of doing outreach, of reaching out to the public and recruiting members and ban of the political party means there is basically no avenue for the brotherhood to participate in any process moving forward and effectively shuts it down and will go after the bank accounts of well-known and wealthy brothers like the well-known businessmen and go after all accounts traced to a brother-linked charity or the brotherhood's central bank accounts. but really it's just going to

keep the muslim brotherhood on the run. when they are on the run it can't function because remember while it's true the muslim brotherhood is an islam organization at the core it's a hierarchy cult and you don't have the financing and you don't have the brotherhood. >> and flash floods and landslides killed 20 people and thousands of families are in emergency evacuation centers and more rain is expected and they are searching for 7 people missing in the providence and al jazeera is there. >> they are under a state of calamity and 20 have died and 200 homes have been destroyed due to land slides, thousands of residents evacuated but it's unsure when they can go back to their homes. many of the roads here are still impassable and recovery efforts are still ongoing for many of those who have remained trapped

in many residential villages. now the providence is one of the center of illegal small mining, operations here in northern philippines. a few months ago the supreme court ordered to halt all operations with small and large scale operations here. many environmentalists warned of damage to the environment because of those operations. but many of the residents hearsay they don't really have an option for livelihood, many of them are either relying on fishing for their livelihood or to work in mining, operations such as those from foreign companies. and it's unsure exactly when they will recover but many are worried it may take time before they can go back to their normal lives again. >> reporter: and there is more rains and flooding in new zeeland and steph has the weather now. >> yes, first of all we have a look at new zeeland because the weather is severe at the moment. we is clouds sinking and

originated in the tropics and sucks up moisture and full of hot and humid air and full of moisture as well. as it's working its way across us it's giving heavy downpours and strong winds as well and oakland is a place where we will see the worst of the winds. so oakland could be gusts of wind up to 130 kilometers per hour to uproot trees and bring down power lines and looking out for a lot of rain as well and some places could be up to 150 millimeters of rain which will cause some flooding. now this area of wet weather is gradually edging east as we head through thursday. as it does so things will calm down and that means for many of us thursday will be an awful lot drier as the worst of that weather begins to clear away. over to australia and here we have a change on the weather on the cards as well and the dark reds and it's quite warm in the southeast at the moment but as we head through thursday that warm weather begins to retreat

towards the north and southeast it is cooler. as well as cooler it also turns rather well and melbourne 14 will be wet and windy too julie. >> thanks for that. now in thailand the synthetic drug called yaba is causing major problems and children as young as 11 are seeking help for drug addiction and the first of our two-part series and veronica reports from bankok. >> reporter: bankok's bright lights and party people from all over the world. having fun is a way of life in thailand. and no one wants to be left behind. more and more people are turning to synthetic drugs to stay awake and feel good. this is the thailand leading hospital for treatment of drug-related problems. there has been a steady rise in admissions here. and particularly in young people. even children younger than 11

are coming in for help because they have been taking meth known as yeba or ice. >> i hung out with bad people and was a drug addic and a cigarette in 6th grade and weed and yaba and my family could not stand it and they sent me here and wanted to leave but after my parents visited a few times i realized i really messed up. >> reporter: he is only 13. but says that drugs have had a big impact only his community. everyone is taking them. it's a huge problem across the region in terms of scale and impact. these are health practitioners from cambodia hoping to learn from the experience. the u.n. drug trafficicing is meth sales are worth $15 billion in east asia and the pacific.

authorities have not made much of a dent in the business. meth labs can be put together in small spaces, and highly portable and easy to dismantle and you cannot find them as easily as pot or cocoa fields and distribution of the finished product is going to get easier as the region's economy grows. >> and they will enable both the flow of goods. so i believe that you know i mean this cannot have a regionel element will be large. >> reporter: governments and police just can't keep up with the pace of changes in the drug trade. the speed of light in the industry. veronica with al jazeera bankok. >> reporter: coming up, here on al jazeera. >> al shabaab. >> reporter: not everyone in

the united states is happy to great the president of somalia. in sport if you think running a marathon is hard try doing it backwards while juggling. why? we will be here with that story. ♪

♪ hello and welcome back, the top stories on al jazeera, the shopping mall siege in kenya is in the fourth day, security force commander said they killed three more fighters in the mall in nairobi and total deaths is 68.

al shabaab is denying that all hostages have been free. state television in iran says 18 prisoners have been released hours before the president addresses the u.n. general assembly. the u.n. says the israeli army is guilty of using excessive force in the west bank and 22 youth have been killed this year and the foreign minister said it can't comments on specific cases. back to the top story, the shopping mall siege by al shabaab in somalia, they are asking for international help to deal with al shabaab and the president is visiting the united states. not everyone is pleased to see him as rob brown reports. >> al shabaab. >> reporter: angry protesters heckled the president mohamed in the state of ohio where the leader was due to speak at a university.

demonstrators outraged over the attack on a shopping mall in nairobi called mohamed an ally of the al shabaab fighters. mohamed expressed condolence and said al shabaab is a threat that extended beyond the africa content. >> this is a threat of al shabaab to the region and the world authority. we send our condolence to the king and government and people. >> reporter: at the united nations u.s. president barack obama made his first public comments on the shopping mall attack. >> we stand with them, against this terrible operation that has occurred. we will provide them with whatever law enforcement support that is necessary. and we are confident that kenya which has been a pillar of stability in eastern africa will rebuild. >> reporter: meeting with the president good luck jonathan obama called it a terrible outrage and called for

solidarity against violent groups like al shabaab. >> all of us as internationals have to stand against them, the senseless violence that these kinds of groups represent and the united states will continue to work with the entire continent of africa and around the world to make sure that we are dismantling networks of disruption. >> reporter: the kenya government believes at least three of the attackers are from the u.s. agencies here are believes to be investigating what role, if any, american residents played in carrying out this attack. rob reynolds, al jazeera. >> reporter: the shopping mall seize is in the fourth day and kenya forces are still fighting al shabaab fighters and are they getting any help? the u.s. denied any of the soldiers were ever in the mall but kenya and foreign minister confirmed it has been receiving advice from israel and they spoke to al jazeera jane. >> came in first to support the

israelis but i think right now our intelligence is shared across the world. i think that resources are being shared across the board. so i think there are others that are helping, other than the kenya and israelis who were the first ones there. >> you mentioned israelis and they have good relations with kenya but you made the role pretty public, doesn't that you think create the danger that kenya might be targeted again because these militants, the country they hate most is israel. >> in 1998 we are close to the united states and the u.s. embassy was targeted, you remember that, right, and we have been targeted before, and people believed and had the majority of the occupants from the west indies are targeted as well. really if you are phasing a

tragedy of that magnitude, anybody who comes in, i know that others from the west indies provide support and talking to them. i know they pledged their support. when you are facing a tragedy of that magnitude, right, your friends come in to help. >> reporter: and kenya and foreign minister there and martin join us in the studio vice president that works with government and companies and martin good to see you again. so we are getting more and more information as the days go on and not sure what is correct and not correct and the latest speculation is some attackers in the shopping mall are foreign nationals to the american, one of them is british as i said we can't confirm that, if that is the case, what do you make of that? >> we will determine hopefully in a matter of hours or the next day or so where the attackers came from but it's known within the estimated few thousand al

shabaab fighters in somalia there are fighters from asia and canada and the united states. there have been over 40 federal convictions and indictments in the united states alone on somalia americans and other sympathetic americans who have gone to somalia to fight with al shabaab or provide material support in one way or another. >> is it a big problem and if so what is the government doing about it? >> in the united states is a big problem and one of the f.b.i. and homeland securitys top priorities for domestic terrorism in the last few years, al shabaab and radialzation of this in the united states. it's a serious problem next to al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula and al shabaab is probably the biggest threat in the united states. >> al shabaab and the united states it seems they are pushed from fighting a war to fighting

a war of attrition and being pushed into these kinds of terrorists acts. how far are they being pushed into this role of trying to launch international attacks like we expect from al-qaeda. >> not pushed hard at all and not pushed hard. they have not been -- their capability has not been that diminished. what you have seen diminished wise for al shabaab is as a military organization, as a fighting organization against the african union and pounded heavily for two years by the african union and by the yooifrunited states and they are diminished and as terrorist organization this is the second international forray and successful and using the motivation in kenya they used in compala and revenge for sending fighters into somalia. >> asking more near international assistance, are we

going to see a concerted effort against al shabaab do you think? >> there is already a concerted effort and the united states is involved and the african union and you will see more. the best way to handle this, the primary force should be the african union. and then it's up to other countries to support the african union as much as possible. >> reporter: martin good to speak with you and thank you very much indeed and martin in the studio there. now to pakistan where the number of people killed in sunday's suicide bomb blast has risen to 18, many of the wounded were rushed to one of pakistan's oldest hospital and the lady reddening hospital is struggling to cope with the rising number of patients. >> reporter: this is the lady reddening hospital, in the center of peshawar and the oldest medical institutes in pakistan and now also one of the

busiest in the world when it comes to treating victims of road accidents and other contingencies. on this day, the casualties from a head on collision between a motorcycle and a truck. the lady reddening hospital is the only facility of its kind in the providence and every time there is a attack or bomb blast the victims are brought to this hospital. we declared an emergency which is also on the media, on the television and emergency has been declared which means that all the staff wherever they are they come and rush to the casualty. when we have these patients, the patients are triaged to different departments like ct, ultrasound or someone needs cardiovascular or neuro surgery and they are all activated. >> reporter: things can change

in minutes of a deadly bomb or suicide attack as ambulances and even private people rush to victims to this facility. >> with time the hospital has developed incredible experience of these emergencies. >> reporter: the hospital will have a new section soon. for the capacity to treat more patients but it will need more training and even outside help if it is to cope with the threat of more attacks and bombings, al jazeera. >> reporter: to be reelected for an unprecedented third term as german chancellor, merkel has a new challenge of finding a coalition partner and they were dumped out of the parliament for the first time in history and merkel faces political trading and we explain from berlin.

>> on sunday they celebrated a win bigger than any one imagined, but not big enough to govern alone so on monday it was back to work to find a coalition partner. . >> translator: we are open for talks and i have already had initial contact with the sbd chairman who said sbd must first hold a meeting of the leaders on friday. >> reporter: the spd or social democrats, merkel's opponents on the center left and emerged bruised and diminished from a grand coalition of the party four years ago and will bargain hard this time for a better deal. >> translator: the spd is not standing in line or applying. after ms. merkel ruined her previous coalition partner to line up now so to speak, the successor is not the intention and we are going into talks very

calmly and agree on the next steps of the process of spd representatives at the party convention on friday. >> and they are throwing itself at the arrangement. sunday's win for merkel and her party guarantees her another four years in that building, the chancellor's office, provided she can get a majority over there in parliament. her opponents offer the best chance of that but the talks will be tough, possibly lasting many weeks, she want want to give away my more capital than she can and they want as much as they can get. merkel will see the election result as a powerful endorsement of strategy, financial rescues to preserve the currency and one thing that could complicate the policy is a new antieuro party for germany and nearly missed making it in parliament this time but the party touched a nerve and tapping into public

uneasy of the tax money pouring into european bail outs. >> translator: this means the christian democrats will have to put more effort into explaining the economic policy. they will have to explain why it makes sense and only politically and economically to support greece and portugal and give more money to europe. >> reporter: she has proven to be one of europe's most resilient leaders and the assumption is she will emerge dominant and powerful in a grand coalition but it could be several weeks before that can be said with certainty. i'm with al jazeera berlin. >> reporter: coming up, on al jazeera we will be on the bridge of the world's biggest container ship as the great dane sails home and ben johnson returns to seoul to fight doping.

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welcome back, now costa rica wants to be the first carbon neutral nation in the world by 2021, to reach the goal they are promoting projects to reduce greenhouse gasses and more environmentally friendly and miarina sanchez reports. >> reporter: this is not just any pig farm, pigs and cattle are the main animal producers of greenhouse gasses but at the farm they are contributing to safe the planet. the farm has been assigned to

converge animal waste where it will liberate gasses and stored and will be used as fuel. >> translator: bio gas is a source of energy and some farms it's used to cook or produce heat for animals and others it's used for lighting. >> reporter: the solids left are turned into fertilizer in one month and improve the quality of the soil. this is one of four experiments of farms on the costa rica fore rest and bam boo is a great absorber of c 02. >> we absorb 1020 tons. >> reporter: these are small projects and corporations like the fruit company are the ones who contaminate the most and they are now taking steps to recycle the bags that protect the fruit. >> translator: the bags are

transformed into box holders for pallets to hold the boxes to transport the fruit. >> reporter: these efforts to reduce emissions are still slim. one of the greatest challenges the larger problems they have is to transport the projects which accounts for 60 percent of emissions. but small farmers are taking bold initiatives since 2007 they have been teaching hundreds of neighbors like her to use low carbon technologies. >> translator: we don't need synthetic fertilizers or agro chemicals to produce food that is friendly to the environment. >> reporter: she mixes waste with ash to control insects and charcoal and coconut fiber and it's time consumer and she wants to be a carbon free nation by

2021 and proud to be using the same methods as their ancestors and returning to them now will help the planet. >> reporter: copenhagen is home to a mask which hopes the giant container ships will rule the waves and we have a remarkable maiden voyage. >> reporter: this is one of three like it and the biggest in the world and at 400 meters long it's as long as four football pitches and almost as wide as one. so the danish captain it has been an unforgettable trip to copenhagen. >> here since childhood and a dream of mine that coming in on a ship i didn't ever realize or imagine that it would be on the world's largest ship and as a captain. >> reporter: this container

ship is part of the new triple, e class and built by the company mask to transport goods between asia and europe and in years there will be 20 operating at a total cost of almost $4 billion. although it's big the vessel sails at slow speed reducing c 02 emissions. >> reporter: it will reduce transporting goods by 50% compared to the industry average, so compared to other container ships on the same route and it's a combination of bigger ship, more box shaped hull and then more efficient engine. >> reporter: with room to hold more than 18,000 of these containers you can begin to see just how enormous this ship is. with the asia to europe route over capacity there are concerns that ships this big will struggle to stay fully loaded. but shipping analysts warns that

the smaller, older vessels that could loose out. >> the over capacity is going to persist for years to come and it's not just for the people who own the large one, it's the vessels that were large 10, 12 years ago and now too small to be profitable and too large to be used profitably anywhere else. >> they line up to board the ship other companies are planning to big even bigger ships. >> reporter: let's get the sport now. >> thank you very much. the secretary general of the world players union believes the problems at next year's world cup in brazil are being ignored and there is a debate about the 2022 tournament continues. and people concerned with the heat and the tropical climate with matches taking off as 1:00 in brazil and worried about how

the players will cope with the long trouble schedule between matches. and talking about the heat and we have to realize that it's not just the quality of the games that is affected but the player's health could be damaged. he went on to say the troubling is also a problem, you have f r four-hour flights in some cases and when you play a tough game and a few days to recover it has an effect. let's go to the weather presenter steph, what is the difference in temperature between brazil. >> let's look at doha because it's easier with a smaller place, the maximum temperature is 41 degrees and drop to 30, 29%, at night. the humidity generally is very low at this time of year. it's about mid july that the

humidity rises. if the matches are before that it's going to be a very dry and very hot heat. but if we look at the weather across brazil it's far more changeable because brazil is so huge. in the north it's very tropical and if you look at all the locations that we have 12 locations many are in the north but some are in the far cooler south and in the north and where the tropical air is we have maximum of 32 and the temperatures don't drop too much heading through the evening and overnight and it's hot and humid and tropical and june and july is winter in this part of the world. so in the south it will be very different, 19 degrees will be the maximum there in the south. and at night you drop down to 9 degrees and sometimes we have been known to drop below freezing. the main problem really is going to be with people going from the north to the south because there is going to be such a massive change in the temperature. >> thank you very much for that. we will catch up with you later

on. now former canadian sprinter ben johnson is in the arena where he had disgrace 25 years to the day after one of the most famous races of all time. johnson tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs immediately after winning the 100 meter final at the 1988 fall olympics and he was stripped of his title and suspended. now he is fighting to eradicate drugs from the sport. harry reports from seoul. >> back on the track, back at the scene of the crime, ben johnson took his time strolling 100 meters he run in 9.79 seconds and a raised world record and lane 6 petition of support for his latest venture and the face associated with drugs in sport and the face of a campaign to eradicate them. >> i believe what we are doing on the campaign is right. i'm not doing this because i want to have a good name or

looking for media attention. i'm trying to set an example for the sports that we need changes. >> reporter: in 1988 the sport made an example of him and watched around the world and images seered in the memory was tainted by johnson's positive drug test and stripped of his medal and time he has maintained his own cheating was to simply keep pace with other cheaters and impossible to compete at the highest level without drugs. >> and it was worse over the years, you know, testing gets better and better and better and the drugs are more advanced better and better and technology of change over the last 5, 10 years. >> reporter: the man behind the campaign is a sports wear entrepreneur and says this is not about a publicity for cause or brand, it's part of a long-term effort. >> it takes time and you have to start somewhere and it's constantly drip, drip, drip and a matter of pressure. the fact we are generated less

than 4,000 petition signatures have very disappointing but it doesn't stop us and we know it's right and we will continue to do it. >> reporter: they want better funding and more independence for the world's antidoping authority and support for athletes who want to come clean and he thinks the victory should still stand but one of a majority of the athletes that were on performance-enhancing drugs and for the optimism surrounding the campaign the depressing fact is he believes the situation has got worse in the century since, henry with sewell olympic stadium. >> and the team usa are hanging on against the team new zeeland and it was 8-1 and needed a win for the title but team u.s. pulled it 8-6, haven't won 16 the 5th victory in a row and race 17 was scheduled for

tuesday but has been postponed until wednesday. pittsburgh pirates have the first playoff place in 21 years with a 2-1 win against the chicago cubs and at the top of the 9th inning with two outs and they hit a home run to get the lead and pirates threw out a runner at home on the bottom of the 9th to end the game. now finally running a marathon is hard enough, but one man wanted to go for a world record so he decided to do something different. and joe of florida ran the 42 kilometers backwards jumpingly with three balls and he hoped to set a world record but to qualify every second of his run needed to be recorded and this is one section of the west does not allow videotaping.

it's good anyway. >> that is terrible, so he didn't get the record. >> no, that is an awful story and thank you for that. we will take a quick break and leave you with some images of the siege of the west gate shopping mall in kenya's capitol now in the fourth day and i'll see you a little later on. >> george. [gunshots] [sirens] . >> lands up. [gunshots] [sirens]

. >> some images of four days of the kenya siege. >> some images the kenya siege. >> some images the kenya siege.

>> president obama prepares a give a major speech before the u.n. about the ongoing crisis in syria. >> the deadly standoff in a kenya shopping mall not over. some at home may have played a part in the attack that left dozens dead. >> how a beard m